How God Remembered Noah and Sinai When the Floodwaters Abated

"And God remembered Noah" (Genesis 8:1). And what remembrance was there? The coming of Israel to Mount Sinai to receive the Torah. For at the end of the month of Iyar the forty days of the falling of rain were completed, and the hundred and fifty of the prevailing of the waters, since Marcheshvan, Tevet, and Adar were deficient. "And the waters subsided." This teaches that the waters were filled with wrath and sought to break the ark, and the Holy One, blessed be He, remembered the coming of His children to Sinai to receive the Torah, as it is said, "On this day they came to the wilderness of Sinai" (Exodus 19:1). And which day is it? This is the day on which the Holy One, blessed be He, performed miracles for Noah. And the expression "and they subsided" means nothing other than the abating of wrath, as it is written, "and the wrath of the king abated" (Esther 7:10).